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Thursday, November 1 2007

Latest Bug Fixes

Following our release last week we encountered a few bugs. These have now been fixed and a list of the fixes can be found below:

  • Group permissions have been modified to make them more understandable and easier to use
  • Forum group permissions (setting a forum group) no longer affect member views of subjects list
  • A group can now be removed from permissions if required
  • You can now edit subject permissions multiple times (as you would expect)
  • When you open a single post with "read more" you will no longer see an additional 'ghost' post.
  • Fix for mini toolbar items - copy, paste, duplicate and delete now work as expected

Walt

Wednesday, October 24 2007

Updated: New release - 24 October 2007

Updated: We've released a fix for the forum bug with membership permissions and a few other minor things. Enjoy.

It's finally here, the new forum, multiple select and a host of other goodies. Enjoy the changes and let us know if you find anything peculiar!

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Wednesday, October 10 2007

Ooooo the good stuff is nearly there...

I've been testing the new forum and multiple select features, and I must say, I'm pretty excited. The forum is going to be a really powerful new tool, and will finally allow you to manage large discussions and deep content message boards on SiteMaker. And the multiple select, well it just feels right. Much easier to move things around, nudge them, drag them, delete them and copy and paste them between pages.

Should be with you in 2 weeks or so. Nice.

Tuesday, October 9 2007

Resolved: Service outage 14:15 - 14:36 GMT

Normal service has been restored. We will follow up with our service provider and post a summary of what happened as we know more. Apologies for the loss in service during this time.

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Wednesday, September 19 2007

Gandi.net launches .co.uk extension

www.gandi.net (Moonfruit's sister company in France) has launched the .co.uk extension, which is great for many Moonfruit customers who come from the UK. And don't worry if you're not from the UK, Gandi offers .com's, .net's, .eu's, and a lot more besides. Because Gandi is Moonfruit's sister company they are used to working with Moonfruit customers and can set up your domain to work with your Moonfruit site quickly and easily. Go on, have a go!

Wednesday, August 29 2007

Flash and Vista bug: with Internet Explorer and Vista, text entry in Flash drops keystrokes - solution!

Some of you new vista users may have noticed problems with text entry in Flash, which will have affected your SiteMaker site. This is due to a general problem with the Flash player and Internet Explorer, which Adobe have now fixed. There is a new version of the Flash player that fixes this issue for IE users on Vista, which is not yet on general release, but can be downloaded and installed from their pre-release site. When Adobe release it in full it will be pushed out by them to all customers, but if you want to upgrade ahead of the game, read on.

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Thursday, August 23 2007

Wanna build a template?

Here it is, the hottly anticipated guide to building design templates for SiteMaker. If you want to build us some templates to be used by hundreds of new people everyday, and get paid for it, then read on.

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Tuesday, August 21 2007

New Release - 21 August 2007

Lots of bug fixing this month, a couple of new things, and the new forum is working in development but not yet complete for release.

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Wednesday, August 15 2007

Templates, templates, templates

Fancy building some templates?

Howdy. Our design team have been working on a few new design templates to spruce things up a bit for the end of the summer (what summer?). And while we were doing it, we thought a bit about how we could open up template creation to you the customers, so that you can contribute to the media set available within SiteMaker. Sound interesting?

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Thursday, August 9 2007

Issue Resolved - re: 9 August 2007 1pm GMT - user uploaded files on read-only mode

UDPATE: 12.32 GMT 13 August 2007: The SiteMaker network was offline for approximately 13 hours between 7pm GMT on 9 August and 8am GMT on 10 August 2007. For 24 hours following this a minority of users (approximately 6%) suffered a loss of images on their sites while files were restored from backups. By 8am GMT Saturday 11 August all files were restored and all systems and sites fully operational again, though most users had service returned 24 hours prior to this.

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Monday, August 6 2007

New forum - coming soon

Since we didn't have a very exciting release at the end of July, we thought we'd post up some screenshots of the new forum feature that is in development and will be delivered over the next few months. It should allow a whole range of new features, plus making it far easier to browse and manage posts. So have a look...

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Service status RSS

We've set up a new section on the blog for service notifications. Here you will find details about any planned downtime, unexpected outages and updates, and completion notes of any work on the server infrastructure. If you want to subscribe to the 'service status' RSS feed, then you will be notified whenever we publish something to this section so you can keep up to date with any issues.

Tuesday, July 24 2007

Issue - 24 July 2007 - Access/Speed Issues with SiteMaker

As some of you will have noticed, loading speeds and access to your websites have not been optimal. This is down to continued problems that we have been encountering with our network. We are in ongoing discussions with our supplier to correct this.

We are also reconfiguring our current system to find additional speed improvements which in the short term may cause some further access or speed problems but in the long term should fix the problem outright.

This is the first time in over 5 years we have had sustained difficulties with our network and we are confident that this will be corrected shortly and permanently. All of us at SiteMaker know how important your sites are to you and your visitors and we are working as quickly and as diligently as we can to fix this.

We do apologise for the inconvenience this has caused you. We ask only for a little more patience while we resolve this problem and return our sites to a high and consistent level of access.

Thanks.

Thursday, June 21 2007

New release 21 June 2007

This month we've been laying a few foundations for new things to come in the future and tiding up a lot of old code, but we've still found the time to get a few new things out. Check out the list below.

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Tuesday, June 12 2007

SiteMaker and Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) - Part V

So, done by keywords, started my optimisation, quick check on my current ranks:

  • "West London Taxi" - number 7, "Joes London Taxis" - number 1 (Google.com)
  • "West London Taxi" - number 2, "Joes London Taxis" - number 1 (Yahoo.com)
  • "West London Taxi" - number 1, "Joes London Taxis" - number 1 (msn.com)

Looks good, and I've even finally been listed by Yahoo!

If you've been reading the all the articles in this series of SEO, this will make more sense to you. For those of you who are new, these articles are about how to get your site listed and up in the rankings on the major search engines. I've been building my own site as a practical example as I go, and things seem to be going well.

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Thursday, June 7 2007

Jobs, jobs, jobs

No, we're not looking for jobs, but we are looking for good people to join us! There are 2 vacancies currently at Moonfruit:

  • Graphic/Digital designer
  • Systems Administrator

Have a look at the detailed descriptions for more information. And if you know someone, let them know!

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Thursday, May 17 2007

New Release 17 May 2007

Our latest release is now out. We've focused on increasing the interactivity on your sites (comment widget), and providing you with marketing tools (mail to a friend), and the ability for all sites to support membership. There's a summary and then a detailed description of some of the new features below.

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Wednesday, May 2 2007

Telegraph article - my best deal

Yes, it does happen sometimes. Here's an interview in the Telegraph with yours truely about a deal we did with Channel 4. I forgot to mention it at the time (was on holiday).

Tuesday, May 1 2007

New release 30 April 2007

Our latest release is now out there. Check out the additions and bug fixes in the list below. For those of you looking for the comment widget, this has been delayed to the next release, but will be out in May with some other goodies...

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Monday, April 16 2007

Nice weather we're having!

I've just got back from holiday in Cornwall. Apparently the warmest Easter weekend since 1985! Well worth it. Been anywhere nice recently?

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